• Climbs
• Climbs up
• Climbs, as stairs
• Does well
• Ed scans mounts
• Escalates
• Gains altitude
• Gets high
• Goes up
• Heads up
• Is caught up in the Rapture, e.g.
• Mounts
• Moves upward
• Rises
• Rises slowly
• Scales, as a ladder
• Slopes upward
• Takes off